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- Title
Detecting ancient admixture and estimating demographic parameters in multiple human populations.
- Authors
Wall, Jeffrey D; Lohmueller, Kirk E; Plagnol, Vincent
- Abstract
We analyze patterns of genetic variation in extant human polymorphism data from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences single nucleotide polymorphism project to estimate human demographic parameters. We update our previous work by considering a larger data set (more genes and more populations) and by explicitly estimating the amount of putative admixture between modern humans and archaic human groups (e.g., Neandertals, Homo erectus, and Homo floresiensis). We find evidence for this ancient admixture in European, East Asian, and West African samples, suggesting that admixture between diverged hominin groups may be a general feature of recent human evolution.
- Publication
Molecular biology and evolution, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 8, p1823
- ISSN
1537-1719
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/molbev/msp096